11 Aug Fifteen Legs Week – Part Five – The Tower Of Orange
Or, I hasten to add, the tower of blue, silver, or black. You pays your money and you takes your choice with the MeFoto Backpacker Air. This is the clever one of the week's offerings...
August 2017
10 Aug Fifteen Legs Week – Part Four – Playing To A System
It used to be said that the casino owners in Monte Carlo loved people who played to a system...
09 Aug Fifteen Legs Week – Part Three – Travel If You Must…
Travel if you must...
08 Aug Fifteen Legs Week – Part Two – The Eurospider
If there was ever a product category that calls forth innovative design, it's the table-top tripod. It would be crass to name competitor's products in a post about a Manfrotto design, but if you go back over the years in this column you'll see at...
07 Aug Fifteen Legs Week – Part One – The Happy Medium
This week you sell yourself a tripod. I'll help out here in the column, but you have to do the ( three ) leg work yourself. First thing you'll need to do is find your camera and see how big it is. if it's a moderately-sized...
04 Aug Black Box Week No. 5 – Where The Black Boxes Really Count
Every time you travel on an airliner there is someone secretly watching. They aren't watching you...
03 Aug Black Box Week No. 4 – The Post-Focus Panasonic
We've been post-war, post-modern, and post-apocalyptic for some time now...
02 Aug Black Box Week No. 3 – Prepare To Load The Canon!
The two cameras selected this week are travelling specials - the sort of equipment that goes on safari or a bear hunt. Or, for that matter, goes to air shows or surfing beaches. Not the massive DSLR or slightly less massive mirror-less system cameras -...
01 Aug Black Box Week No. 2 – The Computer Connection
This week marks a turning point for the Little Studio - I finally had to admit that the hodge-podge of computer programs that I have been using to process digital files - Silkypix, Photoshop Elements, Aperture, and an old copy of Lightroom - were not...
31 Jul Black Box Week No. 1 – The Fujifilm Fabulous Fifty
This week is brought to you in black boxes - some of them contain lenses, come contain cameras, and some contain secrets...